[389-devel] Please review: auto upgrade during rpm posttrans

[Rich Megginson]

Nathan Kinder wrote:
> On 10/06/2009 08:25 AM, Nathan Kinder wrote:
>> On 10/05/2009 07:37 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>>> It is a problem that upgrade is not run automatically during rpm 
>>> installation.  It causes problems for other packages that depend on 
>>> 389.  This fix allows rpm to run the upgrade script.  Some notes:
>>> * had to write scriptlets in lua to allow data to be passed among 
>>> different phases - %posttrans does not know if it is being run as a 
>>> fresh install or an upgrade, so we have to get that information from 
>>> %post to pass to %posttrans
>>> * upgrade must be run in posttrans - in %post, the old package that 
>>> is being upgraded will still be around - this includes the old 
>>> schema in the schema dir - the update script assumes the contents of 
>>> the schema dir are correct and current - so we have to wait until 
>>> %posttrans when the schema dir will contain only the new schema
>>> * the upgrade script can only run non-interactively if the servers 
>>> are all shutdown first - so we have to shutdown the servers, run the 
>>> upgrade, then start the servers back up - however, if the user did 
>>> not want certain servers to be running, we first get a list of the 
>>> running servers, and only start those back up after the upgrade
>>>
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>>>
>>>   
>> I believe you need to add something like the following since you 
>> added the new dirsrv-snmp init script to the package:
>>
>> %post
>> os.execute('/sbin/chkconfig --add %{pkgname}')
> Sorry, I meant the following for the above line:
> os.execute('/sbin/chkconfig --add %{pkgname}-snmp')
>>
>> %postun
>> /sbin/service %{pkgname}-snmp stop >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>> /sbin/chkconfig --del %{pkgname}-snmp
>>
>> Other than that, it looks good.
Thanks.  Checked into CVS
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